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Originally Posted by chadrcr
What were you looking at when SEEing the amps go down/ volts go up?
The power company is throwing the volts, we are using the kwatts .... 120 vac should be the constant in this equation, the KWs used per hour change with the 'hair dryers' all plugged in and turned on...... check the meter outside your house/ apt, those are not volts going through it making it spin faster and charge you more....kws per hour.
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I was talking TO this post :
"250kw is 250,000 watts, or 2,083 amps at 120v. If it's 240 dual-phase, you're still talking about 500 amps. New houses in the US have 200 amp service if the contractor isn't cheap. Old houses have 100 or even 50 amp service."
120Volts is NOT a constant, your house is fed with 2 phase 240VAC, most of your house is wired for 120VAC (thats 1 leg of the 2 phase 240 measured to neutral) If you do the math when a higher voltage is applied the amperage goes down but the KW stays the same and thats what your power bill is based on. A 250KW load is simply not possible on residential power period.